Northwest History. International Diplomacy & Politics. Japan.

Japanese Munition-
Shipments Denied
TOKYO, Aug. 29. (AP)—A government spokesman today denied that
Japanese munitions had been shipped
to Ethiopia and insisted there was no
indication of plans for future shipments. Inquiries in authoritative
military and industrial quarters supported the spokesman's denial.
The spokesman deprecated an Italian suggestion that Japan was sympathetic to Italy's Ethiopian policy
The sympathy, he said, was "confined
to the Rome officially inspired press."
He explained that the impression
was perhaps created in Rome by the
arrival of a correspondent for the
newspaper Asahi, instructed to report
the Italo-Ethiopian crisis from an
Italian angle.

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Japanese Munition-
Shipments Denied
TOKYO, Aug. 29. (AP)—A government spokesman today denied that
Japanese munitions had been shipped
to Ethiopia and insisted there was no
indication of plans for future shipments. Inquiries in authoritative
military and industrial quarters supported the spokesman's denial.
The spokesman deprecated an Italian suggestion that Japan was sympathetic to Italy's Ethiopian policy
The sympathy, he said, was "confined
to the Rome officially inspired press."
He explained that the impression
was perhaps created in Rome by the
arrival of a correspondent for the
newspaper Asahi, instructed to report
the Italo-Ethiopian crisis from an
Italian angle.